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Daily
Guide
Friday 20th January – Kotu.
We arrived
without problem; the first bird was an unidentified dove, on the airfield
followed by an unidentified raptor. The trip to the hotel was more productive
blue bellied
rollers and long tailed shrikes on the telegraph lines,
buffalo weavers in large nests by the roadside. Hooded vultures and pied crows
soaring above the roads and long tailed glossy starlings by the roadside. We
checked in then walked round the hotel red billed firefinch
was found then popped to the supermarket for water and then to the sewage
ponds over the road, someone called uncle tried to get money from us saying
he ran the place and you have to pay. This is untrue tell him your guide and
you have already been here and tell him to get lost. After getting rid of him
and the other bumsters we explored and pied kingfisher
and spur winged
plover were quickly spotted followed by Senegal coucal and red billed
hornbills. Palm swifts passed overhead. We also had grey headed gulls,
black winged stilts, common sandpiper, African jacana, cattle egrets, black
egret, little grebe and white faced whistling ducks were all on the
lagoons. Two African
hobbys were perched on a dead tree.
Western plantain eaters and Senegal
parrots came in to roots in the
trees. We flushed a double spurred francolin from the undergrowth.
We headed back to the hotel for food and to meet our guide for the next week
or so.
Saturday 21st January – Kotu Area.
An early start
and we walked round the back of the hotel all three egrets were easily found
along with sacred
ibis, we had some of the commoner species like common bulbul,
plantain eater, pied crow before watching a group of mixed doves
giving a good opportunity to sort them out, red eyed, laughing, mourning and vinaceous
all present. Tawny
flanked prinia, African silverbills
and village
weavers were all easily located in the scrub. Hammerkop, black egret,
western reef herons were in the pools. We headed towards the Sunset Beach hotel passing night and striated herons. And into the rough
area where we easily located three yellow throated longclaws
and zitting cisticolas.
Two African
hobbies showed well hunting over the pools. We got to the creek in
the hotel grounds and had little bee eaters, malachite kingfisher, bearded barbet,
the usual common waders and Senegal thicknees. We
passed onto the beach and walked into some mixed trees and scrub behind the
beach bar here we had more common species house sparrow, grey headed sparrow, firefinches,
weavers, purple glossy starling, blackcap babbler, buffalo weavers, bronze mannikins and bishops. We had scarlet chested
variable and splendid sunbirds, grey kestrel, Abyssinian rollers, double
spurred francolins, subalpine warblers, melodious
warblers, green wood hoopoes as we explored this area. We reached
the cycle track and walked back to the guides van and headed over to the Senegambia hotel for the vulture feeding. Here we had good
views of hooded
vultures pied crows and cattle egrets and a lavender waxbill. Back to our
hotel and we visited the Jacana pool. It was obviously full of Jacanas
(hence the name), black winged stilts squacco
herons, wood sandpipers, a black crake was in the far right
corner. A large nile monitor was found as well as
a pond
turtle. We went into the rice fields and searched for painted
snipe with out success but found a palm nut vulture on the palms. A quick
lunch then we headed out to Fajara golf course just
behind the beach bars we had agama and skink lizards, cordon
bleu, firefinchs. A yellow
crowned gonolek was in the scrub with
some of the commoner species. The golf course was very busy
with a tournament and thus were less birds than usual.
We still found black headed
and wattled plovers, osprey, harrier hawk, pied
kingfisher, dunlin amongst others. We
headed to Kotu bridge where we had wire tailed
swallows on the wires and long tailed cormorant flying over, we walked
along the creek path towards the sewage pools more Senegal thicknees
were found here another palm nut vulture, fork tailed drongo, red
chested swallow bearded barbet, variable sunbird we headed to the
sewage pools the same birds as the previous evening with the exception of a red necked falcon
and ring necked
parakeets. We were finished for the evening. A couple of small insect eating
bats were hunting over the pool while we dined.
Sunday
22nd January – Up River to Georgetown.
We were up in
the pitch black of the early morning to meet the guide and driver for our up
river excursion. We reached the ferry quickly but too three hours to get on
one due to the corruption of the vehicle loading staff. A few birds were seen
during the wait, house sparrow, red chested swallow, beautiful sunbird.
Caspian terns, grey headed gulls, gull billed terns a storm petrel
and a flock of knot
were seen during the crossing. After a quick stop in Barra
for supplies we headed off the north bank road our destination being Bird
Safari Camp in Georgetown now renamed Janjanbureh
(some locals also call it Makat). We quickly had a Northern anteater
chat, a group of common swifts and pallid swifts. Further down the
road we encountered little swifts and mottled spinetails,
then red
chested swallows and house martins one stop we had striped ground
squirrel. A dead goat carcase had rüpell’s griffon, white
backed and hooded vultures in attendance. We made stops for
short toed
eagles, dark chanting goshawks, brown snake eagle, yellow billed oxpecker, grasshopper buzzard. We made a
couple of slightly longer stops for pygmy sunbird, and little green bee eater. We stopped
for lunch by the roadside and located chestnut headed sparrow larks and exclamatory
paradise whydahs. We continued picking up rufus crowned rollers. We reached
the first stop for the Egyptian plovers with no luck,
there were two marabou
storks and a tawny eagle soaring. We carried on to the next
stop two Egyptian
plovers were feeding by the bank but before I could get the camera
on them we were mobbed by locals who flushed them. We went along the lake
side to find them but found a pearl spotted owlet being mobbed by a selection
of smaller birds. A malachite kingfisher was also located. We
carried on a mile or so and stopped at another lake where 7 Egyptian plovers
were feeding. We carried on our next stop was at the Wassu
stone circles before getting the small ferry to Georgetown and Bird Safari camp.
Monday
23rd January Georgetown and Basse.
A dawn start
produced stone partridges around the bungalow, then a walk down the access
track produced lesser
blue eared glossy starlings, hadada ibis, lizard
buzzard, shikra, yellow throated leaflove, northern puffback,
yellow throated leaflove, purple glossy starling,
as well as many of the common species. After breakfast we headed out towards Basse along the track we encountered four banded sandgrouse
and grey woodpeckers. We drove to Basse picking up American golden
oriole, the only bird of note. At Basse
we could not find the carmine bee eaters despite several hours extensive
searching, red
throated bee eaters were easy to come by, as were namaqua doves,
plain backed pipits cracking Abyssinian rollers, marsh harriers, woodchat
shrike, black shouldered kites with white backed vultures over. We had
a quick stop at Bansang Quarry for more red throated bee eaters and cinnamon breasted buntings in the
quarry. A gabar goshawk was in a nearby tree and several exclamatory
paradise whydahs were about. We headed back to Georgetown to meet our boat trip at 15:00. The boat trip
was just us so we could make any stops we wanted; the trip was designed to
visit some hippopotamus feeding grounds west of Georgetown, the fist birds were European turtle doves, bearded barbets, Senegal thicknees and Lizard buzzards
drinking from the river. Broad billed rollers filled the sky, several African darters
were on the river a large flock of white faced whistling ducks, ospreys, malachite
and blue
breasted kingfishers, a perched western banded snake eagle showed
very well. Two African
fish eagles were seen but no hippos on the feeding grounds. The
trip back produced similar species as well as oriole warbler, violet turaco
and black flycatcher.
We had lots of red
colobus monkeys in the trees and seven marabou storks flying to roost at
dusk. Our trip finished as it darkened and we were dropped off by the boat at
Bird Safari Camp. Due to local villagers putting on a show for us we did not
visit the track for nightjars as they had been disturbed.
Tuesday 24th January - Georgetown to Tendaba.
Another dawn
start (my girlfriend was loving this!) and some birding around the Safari
camp produced bruce’s green pigeon, oriole warbler, black
flycatcher, red shouldered cuckoo shrike, African paradise flycatcher, black
rumped waxbills, and European turtle dove amongst the common species.
We headed off for the long trip to Tendaba. A
colony of Marabou
storks was located along the roadside. The first stop was an area
of scrub that was in the process of being cleared for rice fields (this is
happening all over Gambia).
This produced olivaceous warbler,
swamp
flycatcher but the target species were long gone. We made a couple
of stops for pygmy geese, a northern pintail was the only duck, other stops
produced yellow
backed weavers, red necked falcon, common moorhen, grey back camaroptera,
green backed eremomela, yellow fronted tinkerbird,
plain back pipit, grasshopper buzzard, lots of harrier hawks,
greater honey guide, cut throat finches, short toed eagles, a
flock of white
crested helmet shrikes, vieillot’s barbet, greater blue eared glossy
starling, dark chanting goshawk and ovambo sparrowhawk. As we approached Tendaba we located four Abyssinian ground hornbills. After
some food we headed out for nightjars but a good search only produced a bush baby, two
genets and a mouse sp.
Wednesday
25th January - Tendaba to the Coast.
A group of four irish birders joined our boat trip to the Kisi and Tunku creeks. Gull billed
and royal terns
passed us as we crossed the river, pink backed pelicans, ospreys, a couple of goliath herons,
several mouse
browned sunbirds, montagu’s harriers, common wattle
eye, northern puff back, African darters, a selection of common
waders and a very elusive white backed night heron was eventually found.
We stopped and took a walk through the bush here we found swallow tailed bee
eater, black wood hoopoes, brown snake eagle, woolly necked stork, yellow
backed weavers and yellow crowned bishops, short toed eagle, white shouldered
black tit, common redstart, wahlberg’s eagle, yellow fronted canary.
The star find was a rock python 2-3m long,
there were also lots of mudskippers. We also had Gambian sun squirrel and a mouse.
Back in the car we started our trip to the coast, with several stops for bateleur and lanner falcon
amongst the commoner raptors. Black rumped waxbills, and white
crowned robin chat blue spotted wood dove and a close encounter
with a monitor
lizard. All three monkey species were encountered. We
arrived back at the hotel at dusk.
Thursday
26th January – Brufut and Tanji.
Brufut, after agreeing the price of 1500d (or so I
thought) Pa Jallow and I headed off in the taxi to Brufut Woods, we quickly picked up pin tailed whydah (not breeding
plumage!) and bush
petronia on the paths. At the hide by
the pool we had lots of bishops, finches, waxbills, manikins, weavers, doves,
yellow fronted canaries. We were hoping for something else but
nothing. Our walk through the woods continued with most of the common species.
These were snowy crowned
robin chat, grey backed eremomela, variable and beautiful
sunbirds, little bee eater and fork tailed drongo.
The woods changed to scrub with a whinchat, woodchat shrike and two black crowned tchagra's. Back to the woods and we picked up
two red winged
warblers, yellow fronted tinkerbird
and Klaas cuckoo and a group of black necked weavers. Our next
stop was Tanji - not the reserve (the guides don't go here anymore but I could not find out why) but the beach, here
we had slender
billed gulls, grey headed gulls, lesser black backed gulls and two
kelp gulls.
Osprey, hooded vultures and pied crows were all roosting on
the beach, royal
sandwich and Caspian terns fishing on the sea with an artic skua in attendance. Waders - grey plovers,
ringed plovers, oystercatchers, sanderling and
turnstones
were all present. We set off for a final stop at the edge of Ghana town, a pied hornbill was on the telegraph wires
and we entered the small scrub field, here we had several black headed
plovers and eventually two temminck’s coursers. We headed back to the hotel
and I paid the guide, who then said to pay the driver, the guide was trying
it on as £30 (1500d) is adequate for 4 hours guide and taxi, we had a heated
discussion and told him to lump it we had agreed a price.
Friday 27nd
January – Abuko.
I was up at dawn
and into the rice fields behind the hotel for the painted snipe hunt, I
flushed several double spurred francolins, and the best birds were African silverbills. No snipe what so ever.
Tijan was back
and Abuko was our destination, we arrived and green
vervet monkeys were everywhere, we arrived in the study centre hide to
glimpse a bush
buck disappearing into the trees. We had all the common herons
and egrets,
several crocodiles
and a black
crake which was easily spooked by two marsh mongooses which came
foraging on the edge of the pool. We headed to the next hide and had good but
brief views of two ahanta francolins. We had a couple of violet turacoes, African thrush, white crowned robin chat, fork
tailed drongo, lanner falcon, little greenbul, grey backed camaroptera during the
walk to the animal hospital / orphanage. Here injured animals are looked
after and re released to the wild, those who cannot be released live out
their days here, hyenas, baboons, red patas monkeys
and a couple of tortoises are the main occupants. Here there is a small hide
which you have to pay extra for, we sorted out the fee and entered, here
there is a small water hole where weavers, waxbills, manikins, doves and our
quarry the western
bluebill come to drink and bathe, the
bluebill duly obliged as did a pygmy kingfisher. We met some other birders who
had seen a Verreaux’s eagle owl.We quickly found
the bird roosting and continued back through the wood picking up grey headed bristle
bill, leaflove, oriole warbler, black necked
weavers, shikra, and a brief green turaco. Back at the study centre we had
excellent views of pied kingfishers and bushbuck before a pygmy kingfisher put
in an appearance. As we left a giant kingfisher was spotted on a branch over
the creek along with an African paradise flycatcher, my girlfriend was
suffering the after effects of the previous day and we left about 15:30 instead of going on elsewhere.
We headed over
to Senegambia for the cashpoint,
and then to relax a little in the Senegambia hotel
gardens to relax and do a little easy birding, harrier hawks were roosting in a
tree, I startled a couple of monitor lizards, called in a couple of white
crowned robin chats, lots of the common species including a variable sunbird
were found. I could not locate the lesser honeyguide
that had been present. I went back to the rice fields behind my hotel for the
painted snipe, similar birds as the morning but no snipe.
I tried to confirm
my excursions with Gambia tours that I had provisionally booked via e-mail in
the UK however they are totally incompetent and the days
of the excursions had changed and they could not be accommodated in our
schedule. I rang Tijan who had arranged to guide another couple (as we were
supposed to be busy) but they were happy for us to come along.
Saturday
28t h January – Abuko.
Another morning
scour of the rice fields for the painted snipe, no
luck plenty of francolins,
the usual waders and egrets, sacred ibis.
Due to our
cancelled excursion, we joined Tijan and two birders from the UK Richard and
Betty on their trip to Abuko, black shouldered kite
on the way. We started at the Field study centre with all the usual herons
and egrets, bush buck also put in an appearance as did the black crake, wattled plover and the usual common species. One ahanta francolin put in a brief appearance, as did a
green turaco. A baby crocodile was the reptilian
highlight of the day. A shikra perched up as did
black kites including one of the yellow billed variety.
Pied, and blue breasted kingfishers perched close by giving excellent views,
and just as we were moving on the giant kingfishers arrived, we watched them
for some time fishing in the pools. The second hide gave us excellent views
of violet turacos with a noisy group of plantain
eaters drinking and bathing. The walk through
the woods again gave up the skulking grey headed bristle bill, and oriole
warbler. The Verraux's eagle owl was still present and today we
spotted the nest and the female on it as well, we found some woodpecker holes
in a dead tree and before long we had excellent views of grey and buff
spotted visiting them. We found some bees underneath a platform and both
greater and lesser honeyguides were in attendance.
There were no mongoose today but a couple of Gambian sun squirrels
entertained and the ever present monkeys lounged around in the heat. The
small shop near the animal hospital with its cold drinks was a blessing. It
was then to the small hide where we had a pair of western bluebills, both wood doves
and the usual assortment of bishops, weavers, finches, waxbills, manikins
etc. We had a hybrid
african flycatcher here which troubled
the ID skills of my self for a short while. Back through the woods and we
picked up the Yellow
bellied apalis, swallow tailed bee eater and a pied hornbill
as well as several little greenbuls.
Eventually we located the squeaking wattle eyes and they showed well for us. The
afternoon was getting on and as we headed past the field centre a noisy group
of white
crested helmet shrikes were spotted.
I headed to the Senegambia hotel gardens, where the usual species were
present, green
vervet monkeys had taken the gardens over and we started looking
for the black flycatcher that had been reported, nothing doing but a blue breasted
kingfisher and green backed eremomela were bonuses.
The evening walk
was down the cycle track, via the Jacana pool to Palma Rima
hotel, then to the dunes. Nothing new at either site. The area behind the
Palma Rima hotel is undergoing development, at the
unfinished hotel, were francolins, silverbills
and fire
finches. I continued into the dunes sat and waited shortly after
the first nightjar started flying, I eventually saw two at close range both long tailed
nightjars. I walked down the beach back to the hotel.
Sunday
29th January – Pirang.
My ritual dawn
visit to the rice fields for the painted snipe drew a blank but I flushed
three African
spoonbills. I met one of the local guides and pointed him in the
right direction.
Pirang was our destination again sharing with Richard and
Betty, today the Black crowned cranes were only a slim possibility as they
have become much harder recently. We stopped nearby at Mandinaba
rice fields, the nearest place to the coast for hadada
ibis, when we arrived the local children whom most are training as birdguides, said that there was a baby barn owl by a
nearby tree, we investigated (they need to brush up on their ID skills) and a
baby (nearly fledged) white faced scops owl
was there. We could see the nest very high up in the tree, but no chance of
putting it back.
We took the baby
owl to the van and stowed it away safely and would take it to Abuko animal hopsital on the
way back. We continued round the rice fields with the amateur guides in tow.
Raptors were good here palm nut vulture, Wahlbergs
eagle, yellow billed black kites, harrier hawk, hooded vulture. We
had excellent views of fine spotted woodpeckers and oxpeckers
as well as black flycatcher. We made a quick stop in Pirang
village, where barn
owls roost in the large Kapok tree, the owl was found a pellets collected for analysis at Abuko
(they are researching diet of barn owls).
We left and
headed to the Pirang Shrimp farm, here we paid the
entry (there is a proper birding setup with a small viewpoint / hide and the
guides here will open the locked gate to let you in. We had quail finches
by this gate along with crested larks a couple of warblers, subalpine
and melodious.
We went into the farm and picked a single yellow billed stork, three spur winged geese and three African spoonbills.
No sign of the cranes and we were informed that sightings had become very
infrequent. Several mosque swallows were flying overhead; these are enormous
almost small falcon size. The usual plovers and waders were present and
several pink
backed pelicans but not much else. We left for some wetland about
a half a mile away into the mangroves (marked in book Page 65 map point E) where the cranes can sometimes be seen but
no luck, there were no white throated bee eaters here either. We did get good
views of a long
crested eagle. Our next stop was down the Faraba
Banta Bush track.
We checked on
the owl and gave it water. We made several stops along the track for brown snake eagle,
gabar goshawk, grasshopper buzzard, we
stopped in one area for a striped kingfisher and the whole area was alive,
several violet
backed sunbirds, brown backed woodpeckers, black winged bishops, scarlet chested and beautiful sunbirds. We headed back
to the Hotel via Abuko, where the owl was well
received and was taken into care.
I returned to
the rice fields after visiting the sewage pools little bee eater of note but still
no snipe.
Monday
30th January – Touristy and Bijilo.
Yet another hunt
for the painted snipe, which were being seen almost daily in the area I had
been looking, I met a dutch birder at the bridge
who had seen them and it was only his third day. I found the african spoonbills
again but no snipe. The morning we went camel riding at Tanji Beach, it was good fun, Kelp gulls
the only birds of note. The afternoon was a walk around Bijilo
with Richard (an English birder we shared the Abuko
trip with) we had excellent views of grey woodpecker, green wood hoopoe, lesser honeyguide, little and swallow tailed bee eaters as well
as the monkeys
that make the park popular with tourists. There were lots
of birds on the ornithological trail but very little in the other areas of
the forest, no sign of the white throated bee eaters. Yet another look
for painted snipe before I met Morro for nightjar
watching, he spotted a rufus cisticola on the cycle
track, zitting was more probable from what I saw.
We went to the same area as I saw nightjars before, but with the big torch we
were able to get better views of them, there were up to 6 long tailed
nightjars, but despite extensive searching we could not find any
standard winged nightjars. On the cycle track there were lots of fireflies.
Tuesday
31st January - Touristy, Senegal.
Yet another
early start for our two day trip to Senegal, we waited outside our hotel as the bus to pick us
up passed by without stopping. After some heated phone calls to Gambia
experience, and eventually getting to speak to someone who had some idea
about what was going on another bus came and picked us up and we met the rest
of the group at the ferry terminal. We travelled as foot passengers which
made things easier (this is far easier that taking a vehicle across). Caspian, Lesser
crested, royal and gull billed terns were present along with grey headed,
lesser black backed, black headed and kelp gulls. We learned why we were
not picked up as our hotel tour rep had said to the excursion company that
there were no people going from our hotel - prat,
we had booked at the Gambia experience office and not through him (as his
visits to the hotel at 11.15am every day were not very convenient.) We joined
the 4x4 ex army lorry for our trip along the terrible road to Senegal, no birds of note. The border crossing went
smoothly as was the road in Senegal a welcome change. We headed to a massive kapok tree
several hundred years old, here was a wetland with several heron species, pied kingfisher
and several oxpeckers on the local cattle, namaqua doves
and lots of common species were present. We next visited a local village then
to our hotel for Lunch. Followed by a boat trip to an island kingdom. There
were pink backed
pelicans on the hotel dock, African fish eagles, osprey, white
faced plovers among the common waders. On the island beautiful sunbirds,
and two white
rumped seedeaters distracted my attention from the tour. The
return trip produced the same birds. The hotel had a bird table and although
only village
and little
weavers, common bulbuls, babblers, some of the smaller finches a
selection of doves were visiting and I could get close to the birds. I
watched for some time and two African collared doves first of the trip came to
feed.
Wednesday
1st February - Salome NP, Bijilo.
The following
day was the trip to the Reserve de Fathala, here native animals have been re introduced into a game
park. Most of Gambia
and Senegal's large mammals have been hunted to extinction so here a
selection of antelope,
warthog, giraffe all native to the area live now live (these are
wild animals, this is not a zoo), there is a good selection of smaller
mammals all three
monkeys and lots of reptiles and some birds. The only non native
animals are white
rhino's part of the global preservation of the species. The birds
of note as we toured the park in the truck were blue cheeked bee eaters and hoopoe.
Back to the
hotel for lunch then the trip back to the ferry. The crossing produced all
the previous species, plus storm petrel and several artic skuas.
Back at the
hotel we quickly changed and went to Bijilo forest,
white throated
bee eaters were found quite quickly about 15 or so, just the
common species so I left and went back to my painted snipe quest in the rice
fields yet again. Still blank and with only a couple of days to go I was
getting concerned.
Thursday
2nd February – Touristy, Bakau.
African spoonbills were yet again present during my painted snipe
quest or was it now becoming an obsession! I had all my usual companions in
the rice fields, the sacred ibis, francolins, egrets and herons, weavers
but alas no snipe. The morning was a guided tour of Banjul, Serekunda and Bakau visiting all the major tourist sites, including the
brewery and the sacred crocodile pond. The afternoon I visited the war
cemetery to pay my respects, then to the botanical gardens and the Bakau area. The botanical gardens were full of sunbirds,
splendid, variable, collared, scarlet chested and copper.
It also held the same common species as elsewhere. I was looking for chestnut
breasted starlings but my walk only produced broad billed rollers, fork tailed drongo and shikra
of note. I passed the back of the golf course to Kotu
bridge. The snipe have been see that afternoon and some people were going
along with some guides for a look, I tagged along but after a long search we
drew blank. I did a count and has 194 new species (not including subspecies)
so far and a total of 261 species seen on the trip so far, I arranged a trip
to Yundum for the next morning (the flight back is
in the afternoon) the bus leaves the hotel at 12:30 so I had to be back by 11
to get everything sorted. This I hoped would help me get to 200 new species
for the trip.
Friday
3rd February – Yundum.
I was met at 7:10 for the 20 min drive to Yundum
by ‘Best Boy’ we had black shouldered kite on the way. The walk into
the scrub, and enclosures gave all the common birds a northern wheatear and some little weavers were found, several sunbirds scarlet
chested, pygmy, beautiful and variable as well as several black flycatchers. Asinging cisticola (194) followed by a rufus cisticola (195) then a cardinal
woodpecker (196) things were looking up then nothing for
ages but whinchat,
striped kingfisher. Time was fast moving on and no sign of the
bronze winger courser but a whistling (197) then winding cisticolas (198)
were all found. Just waiting for the coursers but no luck, then cut throat
finches followed then by Plaintive cisticola (199).
then a pied winged swallow came close and flew round
for 10 mins giving great views (200). It was time
to leave 10:20 se we headed back, discussion in the car came to the painted
snipe and the guide asked how much time I had, about 15-20 mins at a push. We drove to the rice fields and headed
straight in, here the guide found a painted snipe but it disappeared before I
could see it into the mangroves, we looked round the other side I caught a
glimpse but could not be sure, there were lots of weavers bathing and drinking.
Than they all flushed hundreds of weavers. The guide saw the snipe and we
headed to a wet field two snipe flew up one back into the mangroves the other
into the next rice field where I watched it out in the open for a minute or
so before it joined the other one back in the mangroves. Finally I had the painted snipe(201).
I went back to the hotel and got sorted for the journey home. With nothing of
else of note it was time to leave.
Nile Monitor
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Red Billed Firefinch
Senegal Coucal
Abyssinian
Roller
Hooded Vulture
African
Jacana
White Faced
Whistling Duck
Cordon Bleu
Little Bee
Eater
Egyptian
Plover
African Fish
Eagle
Red Throated
Bee Eater
Abyssinian
Ground Hornbill
Swamp
Flycatcher
Black Egret
Marabou
Storks
Rüppells Griffon Vulture
Western
Banded Snake Eagle.
Four Banded Sandgrouse
Variable
Sunbird
Violet Turaco
Giant
Kingfisher
Bushbuck
Western
Bluebill
Senegal Thicknee
Pink Backed
Pelican
Marsh
Mongoose
Malachite
Kingfisher
White Rhino
White
Crowned Robin Chat
White faced Scops Owl
Striated
Heron
Giraffe
Blue Bellied
Roller
Blue
Breasted Kingfisher
Namaqua Dove
Green Vervet
Monkey
Yellow
Crowned Gonolek
Piapiac
Yellow
Billed Shrike
White Throated Bee-eater
 ;
Red Chested
Swallow
 ;
Yellow Billed Oxpecker
 ;
Verraux's Eagle Owl
 ;
Village Indigobird
 ;
Wattled Plover
 ;
Wassu Stone Circle
 ;
Pearl Spotted Owlet
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